Russia Explains Why It Rushed Entry Of Humanitarian Convoy

In a nearly carbon-copy replica of last Friday when tensions escalated then de-escalated on rumors that Ukraine had attacked a Russian military convoy, today's Yellen speech has been completely upstaged by ongoing developments out of Ukraine, where Kiev condemned the entry of Russian humanitarian convoy trucks (subsequently adding it no longer knows where they are), following Russia's announcement it could wait no longer to provide aid to the citizens of the Donetsk People's Republic. And while NATO promptly echoed Ukraine' position once again as it did last Friday, now it is Russia's turn to explain why it rushed to enter the country, seemingly without express preapproval by the Ukraine government.

As Reuters reports, "Moscow is not in breach of international law over its humanitarian convoy to Ukraine, a senior Russian diplomat said on Friday."

"We are acting in full accordance with international humanitarian law norms," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in a statement. "We cannot accept and will not accept the disastrous situation in which people living in the south-east of Ukraine have found themselves."

Ukraine said on Friday the entry of Russian aid trucks onto its territory was a "flagrant violation" of international law and it appealed to the international community to condemn Russia's actions as illegal and aggressive

Putin also chimed in, expressing concern over the Ukraine military escalation, an escalation which Ukraine and NATO have roundly accused him of creating.

The situation with endless artificial puffs address the issue of early delivery of Russian humanitarian aid to areas of the South-East of Ukraine has become intolerable.

Motorcade with many hundreds of tons of urgently needed for these regions of humanitarian aid for a week idle on the Russian-Ukrainian border. During this time, the Russian side in all spheres and at all levels have been made unprecedented efforts to settle the formalities. We went to meet all conceivable requirements of the Ukrainian side, given to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), exhaustive lists sent to Lugansk food, water, medicines, essentials, power generators, which require such children, women, the elderly, experiencing daily the horrors of shelling and air raids, which resulted in multiplying the number of killed and wounded, the whole system collapses livelihoods. We went over and over again with respect to the wishes of checking and rechecking the route of delivery, the completion of the procedures for its transmission, with the ICRC signed the necessary documents. Provided all the necessary security guarantees to ensure the provision of such guarantees and by militias - and not only for the Russian columns, but also for humanitarian convoys, directed in Lugansk Kiev authorities.

Meanwhile Kiev for several days set aside formally required to consent to the ICRC, inventing all new pretexts and parallel to increasing attacks on Lugansk and Donetsk with aviation, heavy armor against residential areas and other civilian targets. In recent days, frequent strikes by ballistic missiles, including the deadly "Tochka-U".

It seemed that the situation was resolved on August 21, when the Ukrainian government and, finally, the ICRC reported their readiness to proceed to the design of humanitarian supplies for immediate shipment to Lugansk. Consent of the Ukrainian side at the beginning of the movement of the column has been officially confirmed, without any reservations, in a telephone conversation foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine. August 20 began the customs and border procedures at the checkpoint "Donetsk". However, on 21 August, the process was stopped referring to the sharply intensified shelling of Lugansk. In other words, the Ukrainian authorities themselves bombed destination assistance and for this reason they themselves prohibit its delivery.

Apparently, in Kiev, set out to provide full force "cleansing" of Luhansk and Donetsk for the upcoming Independence Day on 24 August. Strengthens the impression that the current Ukrainian leaders deliberately delaying the delivery of humanitarian aid, in order to achieve a situation where there is no one at all will help to provide. May settle on something to come up with the result to the scheduled August 26 meeting in Minsk.

It is outrageous blatant manipulation of external international experts involved in the preparation of this operation. Endless succession of contradictory, mutually exclusive signals that arrive at our address - a sure sign of "secret games" for the purposes that have nothing to do with solving a specific humanitarian task. Those who "holds the reins," making it difficult to save lives, alleviate the suffering of the wounded and sick, neglected the basics of the human community. Introduces us to the UN Security Council deals with an appeal for urgent humanitarian truce announcement consistently blocked by the very people who claim to preach universal values??. The last time this happened on August 21 when the United States and other Western members of the UN Security Council refused to accept the statement in support of a truce for the period of delivery of humanitarian assistance in Lugansk Russian and Ukrainian columns.

Reiterate all the necessary security guarantees passage of humanitarian convoys are given. In the presence of such guarantees, the ICRC has been officially recognized. Delivery routes known and verified mission of the ICRC. Documents are drawn. Loads have long been ready for inspection by Ukrainian border guards and customs officers, for a week at a checkpoint located "Donetsk" in the Rostov region. Know about it, and in those capitals where tirelessly demonstrate "increased concern" about the situation in the Ukrainian southeast. Nomination of new artificial claims and excuses has become humiliating.

Continue to tolerate such lawlessness, outright lies and inability of the impossible. All excuses for pulling the delivery of aid to people in the area of ??humanitarian catastrophe exhausted. The Russian side decided to act. Our convoy with humanitarian aid begins to move in the direction of Lugansk. Of course, ready for its support of the ICRC, and to their participation in the distribution of aid. We hope that this action will be able to take part and representatives of the Russian Red Cross.

Caution against any attempts to disrupt the purely humanitarian mission, which was prepared long ago, in an atmosphere of complete transparency and in cooperation with the Ukrainian side and the ICRC. Responsibility for the consequences of provocation against the humanitarian convoy entirely fall on those who are willing to continue to bring people's lives as a sacrifice to their ambitions and geopolitical designs, in flagrant violation of the rules and principles of international humanitarian law.

Again call on the Ukrainian leadership and influence him the United States and the European Union to urgently transfer the situation in the South-East of Ukraine into the intercom channel, start the agreements set forth in the Geneva declaration of Russia, Ukraine, the United States and the European Union on April 17, 2014 to terminate the use of force, facilitating humanitarian situation and the immediate beginning of a national dialogue involving all regions of Ukraine.

That said, at this point the potential for further escalation appears limited as the catalyst that many were waiting for now has been triggered and the next major headline event will be if and when there are reports that one or more trucks of the Russian convoy have been attacked or destroyed.

I applaud him for finally sending in humanitarian assistance. The region is without question in desperate need of it. Hey, I know what to do. Kiev can call its military back, leave the people in Eastern Ukraine alone, and then this whole mess would end. That won't happen though, and we all know it.

Um.. yes it was.. I replied to your good idea.. but the companies who are sponsoring the destruction of Ukraine (Chevron, Monsanto, Cargill and probably Goldman Sachs) deserve the opportunity first.. followed by MacDonalds.

It is interesting though that so many seem to favor Russia's position on this and not America's. Anyone alive during the '60's and '70's must be in a mild shock at seeing this shift in perceptions. Up with Vlad, down with Obie. Interesting. I've traipsed along that road myself.

I was a young man in the 1970s and I am not surprised at all. I share that shift in perceptions since the country I volunteered to defend in 1969 is now clearly bent upon world conquest, a goal that does not benefit U.S. citizens. Our government has turned into a murderous monster toppling governments and installing puppet regimes after considerable bloodshed and then loading up the puppet regimes with debt. Our massive defense budget could be cut in half and still leave the continental U.S. with ample defensive military capability.

You will notice that I did not claim to have actually defended my country. I said that I volunteered to defend my country, and spent considerable time in training to do so. Of course, my tour of duty had a great deal more to do with making sure that Germany remained an occupied country and only very indirectly and tangentially had something to do with to with defending the U.S.. The poster above is right though. The USSR invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, and was perceived as a threat as was Communist China and its proxy, North Viet Nam. Back in 1969 the fear of "dominos" falling was credible.

Fair enough- unfortunately, you were defending the ideological positions of the day against the "red menace" and "falling dominoes". Funny how those "dragons abroad to slay" vanished and do not even exist today. At the time they seemed terrifyingly real.

WE are being "led" by an illegal alien who is committing high treason against citizens of the US. It is embarrassing to even consider supporting that team when I can clearly see that the Fed government has created another humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and is trying to pin it on Russia. But, yeah, it's not like the Feds have been doing anything differently than they have been doing for the last 100 years.

Time for Convention of States to reign in, or eliminate Washington, D.C.

Looks like after the WWII fascism imploded into the US deep state and it's being revived in Europe again. The public of USA has no clue what is happing in Europe and ME now, and they are not going to get it unless they experience the devil war on its soil. It's really sad how marginalized got Ron Paul, the most reliable source of quality information about the real thing. US attacked country after country abroad. The three letter agencies prepared the environment by big bribes, propaganda and power. And went.

Such enemy can't be defeated on foreign soil, you need to track it back to its home. US folks should be aware of the consequences.

The International Red Cross spokesperson said on the radio they inspected these trucks carefully for weapons, etc and found none so the Red Cross gave the ok to proceed. I got the impression some RC workers would be accompanying the trucks across.

Hey, JackFrostfan1, it is said that "Every story has 3 sides: your side, my side, and the Truth"

We at ZH are simply sick & tired of the BS, deceit, lies and propaganda that's spewing out of NY, DC and its Big 6 MSM networks, that control ~90% of all media. If it appears "one-sided", it is to act as a Counter-Balance to the other far bigger One-Sided stories and fairy tales for adults - which you seem happy to listen to.

That's the second time he's been given the boot. The first time was about a year ago, and he was posting under the frostfan moniker. My memory is a little hazy regarding the details (and frankly, he's not worth the time to research), but he was a foaming at the mouth Israel-firster. My recollection is that something set him off and he let loose with a shamefully absurd rant, something along the lines that ZH was like stormfront.

A month or two later, he reappeared as Frostfan1 and, given his previous spittle-flecked invective against ZH, I was surprised that he'd been given another account. After clicking on his name, I learned that his Frostfan1 account had been created a couple of years earlier, probably as a backup in case his frostfan account got shitcanned.

Like a dog returning to its vomit, he'll eventually be back under another name.

If we thought for a second that real journalism still existed in the world, we'd be eating it up - people are hungry for the truth. However, many now do not trust the press. We see them as lap dogs for the liberal-leaning, progressive, communist slanted dipshits and quite frankly we don't like it. Don't like it at all. So yeah, you could call that a raw nerve.

Equally ridiculous point though is the incredibly pro-Russian standpoint on here especially the ridiculous admiration for Putin. Putin at a minimum is going to carve out 'security zones' in eastern Ukraine and look to put a gov't in place that is much more pro-Russian. Basically is duplicating what happened in Georgia with the only exception being that he didn't need to sucker the Georgian leadership into foolishly 'invading' Russian-held territory.

There isn't a 'good side/bad side' in this story. Just two powers using Ukraine and their people as the battleground. Really nothing new either and something that has been going for a long, long time. The losers as usual are the Ukrainian people just as the Vietnamese, Cambodian, and a host of other African and Central American countries were in recent decades.

Don't mistake disgust with the constant lies coming from the war mongers in the west with admiration of Putin. Make no mistake he is a statist who will do what best preserves his seat of power just like our statists here.FYI the western war machine is in full instill fear mode, just in case you weren't paying attention.

Of course, and they are the victims of the the coup organized and financed by the U.S. against the legitimately elected Ukrainian government. It looks like this adventure in provocation by the U.S. will backfire, and it shows us that we have delusional incompetents running foreign policy. None of us here at ZH have any particular love for Putin or Russia, but we recognize that Russia and the nations bordering Russia should manage their own affairs without our interference. Indeed, the increasing quantity of trade between Russia and the rest of the Eurasian continent tells us that the Russian regime recognizes that it must continue to deliver tangible economic benefits to its citizens in order to maintain its legitimacy. We should let them continue on that civilizing course which we have now disrupted out of irrational motives and calculations by our deluded government. All that a U.S. supported puppet government in Moscow would offer is debt slavery to the Russian people.

Trade have been overwhelmingly in raw goods from Russian benefitting a sliver of the popluation. Putin has been willing to write off large portions of the country and the Russian citiznes who live there. Kind of what I think is going to increasingly happen in the US too and it has been on a much lesser scale if you look at trends in rural America and in large portions of the Midwest.

In an ideal world, Russian would base it upon economics and trade but that isn't what Putin has done either solely. Understand why the Russians have reacted in the way they have especially given the US foreign policy in both the Central Asian republics, Caucacus, and increaisngly in eastern Ukraine.

This is disgusting and embarrassing to write a post and comment like this

We should have let Hitler manage his own affairs without our interference while he massacred 6 MIL ppl, and let Bashar al assad gas his own people with chemical weapons. Pol pot? Have at it buddy! Even ISIS is an example of what happens when you let extremism or those with a deluded and extremely strong force of ideas have free reign for too long. The beheading of a journalist (which i'm sure everyone at ZH somewhat considers themselves) should be a chilling reminder to what would happen in a more ‘free’ society that ZH seems to write so wistfully for. A true libertarian believes that everyone should be left alone to do their own thing but already we are seeing the disasterous consequences of that in Syria as the unrest has spilled over into Iraq and elsewhere.

Having lived in Russia and just recently moved out of Moscow, your last comment is absolutely terrifying. You have NO idea. You have no idea of the crackdown that has happened in Russia on those with dissenting views in the last six months, how those with extremist ultra nationalist (and non pro-economic) views are given center stage in prime time TV, how the Russian propaganda machine is trying to brainwash a population even more effectively than hitler did. The youth are terrified and in fact hoping that the west pushes back on Putin because people worry if he gets away with this and cracks down on the populous, why should he need to care about the economic benefits you seem to think he recognizes he needs? he HATES relying on economic growth to keep the populus satisified. He would love to not have to worry about it, and by using this "western consiporacy" to justify a rebuilding of an old Russian empire he will have the popular support he needs to not have to worry about GDP growth per capita.

I challenge ZH to try to post the kind of things it posts while sitting in Russia, in an Russian incorporated business, with the "wests" side of the story and see how long it lasts. Western democracies are so wrong in so many ways but if it weren’t for western democracies and an attempt at a fres press and the guardian of certain rights, you wouldn't have a job.

I challenge the individual who wrote this post to visit Moscow for six weeks and then come back, if this person even has a passport. Disgusting and ignorant.

This is disgusting and embarrassing to write a post and comment like this

We should have let Hitler manage his own affairs without our interference while he massacred 6 MIL ppl, and let Bashar al assad gas his own people with chemical weapons. Pol pot? Have at it buddy! Even ISIS is an example of what happens when you let extremism or those with a deluded and extremely strong force of ideas have free reign for too long. The beheading of a journalist (which i'm sure everyone at ZH somewhat considers themselves) should be a chilling reminder to what would happen in a more ‘free’ society that ZH seems to write so wistfully for. A true libertarian believes that everyone should be left alone to do their own thing but already we are seeing the disasterous consequences of that in Syria as the unrest has spilled over into Iraq and elsewhere.

Having lived in Russia and just recently moved out of Moscow, your last comment is absolutely terrifying. You have NO idea. You have no idea of the crackdown that has happened in Russia on those with dissenting views in the last six months, how those with extremist ultra nationalist (and non pro-economic) views are given center stage in prime time TV, how the Russian propaganda machine is trying to brainwash a population even more effectively than hitler did. The youth are terrified and in fact hoping that the west pushes back on Putin because people worry if he gets away with this and cracks down on the populous, why should he need to care about the economic benefits you seem to think he recognizes he needs? he HATES relying on economic growth to keep the populus satisified. He would love to not have to worry about it, and by using this "western consiporacy" to justify a rebuilding of an old Russian empire he will have the popular support he needs to not have to worry about GDP growth per capita.

I challenge ZH to try to post the kind of things it posts while sitting in Russia, in an Russian incorporated business, with the "wests" side of the story and see how long it lasts. Western democracies are so wrong in so many ways but if it weren’t for western democracies and an attempt at a fres press and the guardian of certain rights, you wouldn't have a job.

I challenge the individual who wrote this post to visit Moscow for six weeks and then come back, if this person even has a passport. Disgusting and ignorant.

From Wikipedia - "Russian economy is the sixth largest in the world by PPP.[3] Between 2000 and 2012, Russia's energy exports fuelled a rapid growth in living standards, with real disposable income rising by 160%.[28] In dollar-denominated terms this amounted to more than sevenfold increase in disposable incomes since 2000.

It is the very economic growth over the past 14 years that has alarmed the U.S.. Under Putin and Medvedev, Russia has gained sufficent economic power to block the U.S. Neocon agenda in Russia and Asia. Indeed energy exports have provided the resources to import, for example, the many thousands of tons of fruits and vegetables from around the world which the government has temporarily boycotted. Arguing that a few hundred oligarchs could consume all those thousands of tons of imported fruits and vegetables is absurd. These imports benefit the average person as has the economic growth and increasing trade over the past 14 years.

There is no doubt that the economic growth has benefitted a wide swath of Russian society, even if poverty has not yet been entirely eliminated.

You sound like an employee of one of the 3000 or so NGO's that is trying to subvert the government of Russia. It is no wonder the Russian government suppresses your speech. Your goal is the overthrow of that government just like your comrades did in Ukraine. Given your hostilie intentions involving revolution and coup, if I were in Putin's place, I would do much more than just throttle your speech. I would deport all of you immediately. It is not the government you are after but the enslavement of the Russian people to western debt and to reduce them to the status of peasants in the pale of the settlement 150 years ago, a vision of powerlessness that provides a great deal of psychic comfort to our ruling elites here in the U.S. with ancestral roots in that region of the world.

FYI, I like the Libertarian thought, #3, and wish it was one of the options that was taken seriously in the world. It would solve many problems short term and long term might lead to more empowered people.

It might be different if we were really bright, but look at every hot spot worldwide and you can see the CIA's markings of a solution.... I rant

Well, the sociopaths who run Russia are no better or worse than our sociopaths, and Russia will have a tough time withstanding sanctions because we ARE the worlds biggest dicks and Europe is still occupied by us.

Thing is, majority of readers here are just pro everything that is Anti-Western/US.

Most of them would rather still live in the US, where sites like Zerohedge can operate, as we know or maybe zerohedge readers dont know, that Russia will require bloggers to register with the government.

As for Ukraine, as someone from Eastern Europe, the lies that come from Russian TV are just shocking, my own country (yes I live in Baltics) are often accused of Fascism. You know why? Because we ask the Soviet Russian Occupants to learn our history & language. Russia complains that we are fascists and whatnot because we have so many non-citizens that are Russians by ethnicity. They can become citizens if they wish to do so, but they wont, because it would require for them to learn our history and language. Most of them probably hope that one day there will be "liberators" from Russia, like those Russian citizens such as Strelkov in Eastern Ukraine.

Fun fact: In Russia you can become a citizen only if you know Russian language & history...in Baltics we are fascists because we dont give Russians who cant speak our language citizenship.

Knowing first hand how much lies Russia is spreading about my own country, I often find it hard to believe anything they say about Ukraine.

Interesting post. It would be interesting to hear what real people close to Russia think about things. Keep posting; and just ignore the anti-USA posters, they are just commie-loving hippies that didn't support Vietnam either, most of them probably know Jane Fonda personally.

Nicely stated and a fact that is completely overlooked here. This site would simply be banned in Russia and repeated attempts either in print or others would be met with gradual levels of escalation including imprisonment and/or even state-sponsored execution. Just look at the number of Russian media journalists who have been killed in Russia since Putin came to power.

Just look at this Aussie V poster, he is took some video from a Russian website claiming that Ukraine is bombing with rockets a city in Eastern Europe, however that video is a lie AGAIN by the Russian state TV.

There was a video also after Ukrainian army took back Slovyansk on how they were killing people there, which was fake also. They completely ignored the video where people were celebrating Ukrainian army with Ukrainian flags in the city and the fact that they can live in peace, oh and no Banderas (the boogyman Russian media uses) there.

Oh we got a Russkie Convoy rockin' through the night! loaded down with tanks and guns and stuff, itchin' for a fight!

C'mon and join Vlads convoy ant no NATO gonna get in his way, you stole his gas now He'll kick your ass, now you got some hell to pay! Vladvoooooy!

Higballin' in west on the M04 and I knew we was in trouble, toll gate down on the 'Dont-ask' bridge and I didnt have a dog gone ruble.

I said "Big Sven, this here's the Moscow Duck, we aint a gonna pay no toll", so we crashed the gate doing 98 (km) said lets these Russkies roll!

Vladvooooy! ConVlaaaad!

refrain:

Some Poles showed up in a turnip truck, and the Ice Road Truckers too! A pair of Chinks on a three wheeled bike loaded down with green bamboo. A Global effort of Whired Wide Peas, nearly every one took part! Eleven long haired friends of ISIS on a coccamamie camel cart! Vladvooooy! Convlaaaad!

refrain:

Well we rolled on down into Donkey town and them Ukes was wall to wall, they was yelling and screaming and throwing shit but they didn't know who to call.

They finally got through to the Whitehouse, and asked what they should do. "Hit the 'Reset' button, dont act stupidly, 'Ol Vlad is just playing through" 10- fore!

There's armored cars and tanks and jeeps
'n' rigs of ev'ry size
Yeah, them chicken coops was full of bears
And choppers filled the skies
Well, we shot the line, we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreuse microbus

good move by Putin. Obviously these trucks carry the survival stuff for the poor people. They inspected the dame things. Now, these fascist/nazis tried to delay and delay. But Russia stormed in and the ball is in the fascist/nazis court to decide whether to bomb them. If they do, the world will serve justice (I hope it does and not all are dumb down). Smart move, becoz clearly these people are in great need.

Just to add - I would like to take my baseball cap off to the brave truck drivers and the aid personel in those trucks. Its extremely brave of them to drive into a hot war zone to save these people.!! BRAVO and I will prey for your safety!!

I looked at a pic of those Ups drivers gathered in the tan shorts and did not see any typical truckdriver beer guts, they all looked kinda fit as a fiddle like they just got out of boot camp or something. Im sure they can manage.lol But you are right going in unarmed or lightly is pretty ballsy. Hats off.

It's a war crime: attacking residential neighborhoods and now holding up humanitarian relief so that civilians will submit to Victoria Nuland’s tyranny of the oligarhs.

Jim Kirwan called it what it is on8-12-14:

Stop Listening! To the Voices of Treason!

“Major media in the United States is the voice we pay, to sell us their lies: Lies that have turned our world into a variation on what has happened to the people in Gaza and Eastern Ukraine.

“If the public refuses to track the truth, using common sense and the internet, then the frustration [the realities of subdividing each so-called nation into subsets of interest groups such as in Iraq, Gaza and Ukraine to break down unity in order for the oligarchs to seize their huge resources] will be here before most people have any clue about how dangerous it is, to fail to notice the fact, that we’ve already been captured. We need to rip out the tongue of treason that comes from corrupted media.

“An excellent example of how the realities of today continue to be contorted into lies, which is the current denial of reality, is coming from the so-called government in Kiev today. The issue in Ukraine is whether or not there’s a humanitarian crisis for the people living in and under the constant bombardment of what is left of the once prosperous manufacturing and industrial zones inside Ukraine. The government in Ukraine says NO. The people of the world, the United Nations and the Red Cross say YES.”

You can bet the Russians know exactly where the convoy is. They will have complete satellite, radar and photo surveillance. Kiev blasted MH17 when it thought no one was looking. Let's see if they try to hit the convoy knowing that it will be recorded.

From a map on militarymaps it looks as if the convoy turned off the main road about half way to Luhansk and went north nearly up to the Russian border before turning west in Luhansk.

This had two effects, it kept them very close to Russian aerial support (say attack helicopters) almost all the way and kept them as far as possible from Ukrainian Army artillery south east (covering the main road) and north of the town.

This could be another reason for half loading the lorries, the risk of going cross country in non 4x4 trucks.

10 people get killed in eastern Ukraine a day (and that is bad) while 100 get killed every day in Syria (very, very bad) and I don't see any aid conveys to Syria or even Turkey where so many refugess were taken in. In fact Russia did a wonderful job at the UN blocking any attempts to get a cease fire (gotta keep them Russian bases).

The Russian bloggers are home from work and just going strong.

Down vote me. I'm eating Norwegian salmon steaks tonight along with my Dutch veggies. Got a sort of apple torte in the oven from Polish apples.

dont know where your getting your info but according to the DNR heres the numbers of Ukranie army troops from MAR2 to Aug 20

20124 Killed or wounded

279 prisoners taken

11875 deserters or missing

319 t-64 destroyed

7 t-72

19 t-84

and about 30 aircraft. Done all with basically heavy infantry which cost hardly diddly squat.

This is already more than the entire Chechen war. Which has got NAto/US barking on the sidelines. You enter here and you are going to pay in blood and it will take boots on the ground. You will not get the typical control of the air with Russian antiair missiles. You have to get down in the mud. And then you have to sell the high casualty rate to your people and good luck getting elected again.

Its a Bear fight. He just sits back and lets you beat yourself to death and when your all worn out bitch slaps you with those nasty paws. Same way since Napoleon's times.

Or How bout the Nazi's in WWII,

A Fact

first 5 days of the Nazi invasion of Russias

Russia lost 2999 aircraft and over 4000 Tanks in the first 5 days and still came back to win. Heck Russian women with sniper rifles killed more Nazi's than the US did.

This is why the dipshits in the Pentagon need to study history a little and Psaki needs to take high school geopgraphy lessons. They do not know what they are facing trying this insanely stupid crap.

I've noticed a real uptick there, and here - anyone criticizing the sort of neocon/MSM narrative [roughly - Russia bad, America good, Israel totally uninvolved and worried about being wiped off the map by evil Muslims, Ukraine not killing its own people, etc.] is accused of being a Russian paid troll etc.

Now, the "paid troll" thing has been around forever, and there are certainly some paid trolls out there - but this seems to me like projection.

The Timesis essentially the voice of the Deep State - and the Deep State is heavily Jewish and Zionist, and Zionist Jews have been wagng war on Russia for over 100 years.

Just yesterday the Russians made it very clear that they have no intention to invade Ukraine. That is good enough for me! Russian boots on the ground this month and control over East Ukraine before winter. Go Putin!

What is NATO going to do? More sanctions that will backfire the minute they're uttered? Hot war in winter by proxy Poland assisting Ukraine? If Russia can capture the East or parts of the East before/during winter the Uke forces will retreat and by Spring the UN will have drawn a new map.